Notes on Russian Pseudo Science

Pseudo Science appears markedly worse in Russia, and Ukraine for that matter. As is typical of Russian conspiratorial thinking, scientific inquiry often takes the form of overcoming nature which is maliciously and unfairly hiding its abundance.

Science and Pseudoscience in Russia: The First Skeptics’ Congress Convenes in Russia

The Russian Academy of Sciences cosponsored a special conference with CSICOP on “Science, Anti-Science, and the Paranormal” last October in Moscow. Russian scientists complained about the growth of uncritical public acceptance of pseudoscience in Russia and participants passed a resolution warning of the increasing anti-science, charlatanism, and irrationalism.